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Aggregated blogs for the Introduction to Social Research Methods MOOC

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The ‘SOCRMx News‘ is the blog aggregator for the Introduction to Social Research Methods MOOC from the University of Edinburgh on the edX platform.

Category: MSc Digital Education

A tour through the Harry Potter world

Last week, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to join my students on a school trip to London. One of my students and a colleague invited me to join them to the Warner Bros Harry Potter studio tour… Read the rest

Posted on April 1, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, Game-based learning, MSc Digital EducationTags #SOCRMx

Rising Sun

Last weekend I was invited to come over to friends for some board games. They had a new game called Rising Sun. I hadn`t heard of the game, which is not surprising as it has been released in 2018.… Read the rest

Posted on March 7, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, Game-based learning, MSc Digital EducationTags #SOCRMx

A research review

In this critical review, I will be looking at the research ‘Open to influences: what counts as academic influence in scholarly networked Twitter participation’ (Stewart, 2015, p. 294). Bonnie Stewart’s (2015) research mainly focuses on how academics establish and assess … Read the rest

Posted on March 4, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, MSc Digital Education, Social Research MethodsTags #SOCRMx

Game Review: Horizon Zero Dawn

I am Aloy a six and a half-year-old girl and an outcast. At the beginning of the game I get lost and find some sort of electronic device, people from the community do not talk to me because I am … Read the rest

Posted on February 24, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, Game-based learning, MSc Digital EducationTags #SOCRMx

Finding an example of experimental intervention

For this week I have been looking for research conducted using the experimental intervention. I decided not to use the university’s library for this, but to look at other available research through Academia. Finding something that fits with the … Read the rest

Posted on February 5, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, MSc Digital Education, Social Research MethodsTags #SOCRMx

Stroop experiment

For week 2 of the MOOC I picked the experimental intervention method.

As part of the course I was asked to take a test, which you can find here. My response time to the first parts was 15.902 seconds … Read the rest

Posted on February 5, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, MSc Digital Education, Social Research MethodsTags #SOCRMx

SimCity

So this wasn’t my first encounter with SimCity, however, I do think it is the first encounter in which it is even slightly possible for me to grasp the idea of SimCity. I think the last time I played this … Read the rest

Posted on January 29, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, Game-based learning, MSc Digital EducationTags #SOCRMx

Changing realm, race and faction

So I hadn’t had time to finish writing this blog, so here it is, two weeks after the fact.

I played WoW (World of Warcraft) with some of my fellow students on a Monday. All of us had created a … Read the rest

Posted on January 29, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, Game-based learning, MSc Digital EducationTags #SOCRMx

My first blog (MOOC SOCRMx)

I have been asked to write my first blog as part of the MOOC for SOCRMx by answering a few questions.

What kind of topics are you interested in researching?

At the moment I am considering the following topics. Blended … Read the rest

Posted on January 29, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, MSc Digital Education, Social Research MethodsTags #SOCRMx

Correlation between violence and violent media?

For this week of my course at Edinburgh University I am looking at the effects of video games. Or actually I am reading about the correlation between violence and violent media. Everyone has heard of the news stories of kids … Read the rest

Posted on January 27, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, Game-based learning, MSc Digital EducationTags #SOCRMx

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